ONLY a baby 'Thout any hair, 'Cept just a little Fuzz here and there. Only a baby, Name you have none, Barefooted and dimpled, Sweet little one. Only a baby, Teeth none at all; What are you good for, Only to squall? Only a baby, Just a week old; What are you here for, You little scold? BABY'S REPLY. Only a baby! What sood I be? Lots o' big folks Been little like me. Ain't dot any hair? 'Es I have, too; S'pos'n' I hadn't, Dess it tood drow. Not any teeth -- Wouldn't have one; Don't dit my dinner Gnawin' a bone. What am I here for? 'At's petty mean; Who's dot a better right 'T ever you've seen? What am I dood for, Did you say? Eber so many sings Ebery day. Tourse I squall at times, Sometimes I bawl; Zey dassn't spant me, Taus I'm so small. Only a baby! 'Es, sir, 'at 's so; 'N' if you only tood, You'd be one, too. 'At 's all I've to say, You're mos' too old; Dess I'll det into bed, Toes dettin' cold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLEDGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 9 by JAMES JOYCE STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 2. ILLINOIS by CLARENCE MAJOR A NEW HYMN by KATHERINE MANSFIELD REMBRANDT TO REMBRANDT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE POWER OF ART by GEORGE SANTAYANA NEW NEIGHBORHOOD by KAREN SWENSON COUNTRY SCHOOLROOM, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER |